Word: journalism
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...providing content online for free was "malfunctioning." Poleaxed by a severe ad slump and hemorrhaging red ink, printed newspapers and magazines have been downsizing or closing in some countries, even as their digital editions attract growing numbers of readers. Murdoch - whose News Corp. media empire includes the Wall Street Journal, a rare newspaper with a profitable, subscription-based website - has vowed to boost the earning power of his digital properties by increasing the number of News Corp. sites that charge for content. Other publishers are suggesting that, while subscriptions to online newspapers and magazines might be a tough sell...
...recently renewed my subscription to a newsmagazine called TIME. Recently, however, I have been receiving weekly editions of the journal of the Obama Adoration Society. When will deliveries of my newsmagazine resume? George Orban, Sydney...
...fact, in a study published this month in the journal Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Treasure and colleagues found that underweight anorexics performed poorly on a classic test of understanding others' emotions that was devised by Baron-Cohen to study such defects in people with autism-spectrum disorders. The theory is that hunger focuses the brain so sharply on the task of getting food that, as with other stressors, it shuts down higher cognitive functions, like reading other people's emotions...
...emasculation theory. Some male animals might mount other males as a way of denying them access to the ladies. For instance, as the Journal of Natural History noted in 2006, male dung flies often must compete violently to impregnate females. In those situations, "the most sensible strategy for beating a competitor in the race to an arriving female would be to mount him and remain in situ for as long as possible." Then, when the lady dung fly finally sails by, the aggressor male can pull himself out from the dominated male and - because he is on top - get above...
...Bailey, Zuk and many others have pointed out, no one has offered an adequate evolutionary explanation for the relatively recent development of exclusive homosexuality among humans. In January, the journal Evolution and Human Behavior published a paper exploring the idea that certain alleles increase the likelihood of homosexuality by blocking the effect of androgens during fetal development. Having all those alleles hampers the masculinization of some parts of the brain that affect personality, making you gay, the theory goes. Brothers of gay men who have only some of the alleles would turn out straight but less aggressive than typical guys...